any time we dare to say: “This biblical passage means . . .”, the balance of power in various communities may be altered.
“If we desire what is good in ways that are not good, we can rest assured that God will gracefully disappoint us. If what we find delightful in God is in fact an illusion, God has promised to go on revealing his true beauty until we find that beauty truly desirable.”
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
“we recognize sin as whatever it is that frustrates or defaces our joy, whatever it is that keeps us from resting in the event of God that is the source of our life.”
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
“The fear of judgment, in particular, keeps us from being gracefully present to those most in need.”
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
― Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters
“Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“God is bad at PR—on purpose—because the Divine has no interest in ending up on TV, being big on Instagram, having Its own line of cookware at Target. That’s too obvious.”
― Honest Advent: Awakening to the Wonder of God-with-Us Then, Here, and Now
― Honest Advent: Awakening to the Wonder of God-with-Us Then, Here, and Now
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